Ban Ki-moon appoints the Moroccan Mr. Djamel Ben Omar as his assistant in the highest international diplomatic office

New York –independent Maghreb
press agency – The Secretary General of UN Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has appointed the Moroccan
Mr. Djamel Ben Omar in the position of secretary general’s assistant of this International
Organization, herewith Mr. Djamel who was a politician prisoner in Morocco, is
considered the first Moroccan to accede the highest political office until
now

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The spokesman of UN Mr.
Martin Nesirky has announced Wednesday Evening that Secretary General of UN has
appointed Mr. Djamel Ben Omar as the secretary general’s assistant, because of
his success in his mission in Yemen during the transitional period in the
country

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Mr. Ben Omar, an ethnic Amazigh, from Tetouan city, works
for the UN since 1994, and he took charge of many offices in the development
program “articles”, Human Rights, and the social affairs. Also worked in
Afghanistan, Iraq, and almost 30 other countries to anchorage Human Rights and conflict
resolution

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He was political prisoner in Morocco during the 70th,
arrested during the wave of violent attack that exposed the Moroccan left, and
he left Morocco in the 80th to join Amnesty International, Jimmy
Carter foundation, and UN later on

. His mediation in Yemen crisis during Arab Spring, is the most highlight
mission he has ever take, in which has succeeded in avoiding Yemen a civil war,
and makes him a significant International name in the field of conflict
resolution

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The position that Mr. DJamel has taken as an assistant
of the secretary general of the UN, is due to his personal efforts without
receiving any Moroccan diplomatic assistance, referring to that Morocco always
adopting the policy of tightening against the political prisoners, those who
never change their mind

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It is a rare, what happened with Mr. Ben Omar, during
discussing the Moroccan file of Human Rights in Geneva 1995, they found among
the members of the delegation Mr. Kadour El Yousefy who had supervised his
torturing in a prison of Derb Mouley El Chrif in the Casablanca during the 70th,
and it was a real scandal to Morocco